After it was shut down in 2001, the Faso Fani textile factory in Koudougou, Burkina Faso's third-largest city, was left to rot. It probably figures in the World Bank and IMF archives as one more piece of collateral damage, yet another write-off in a West African sideshow.
For a long time Koudougou was considered as the textile city of Burkina Faso. The whole town woke up in the morning to the sound of the siren of Faso Fani. But the factory closed in 2001. Hundreds of employees have abruptly lost their jobs .—Carthage Film Festival